Quote #23
For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
More from Geoffrey Chaucer
- His studie was but litel on the Bible.
- Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.
- Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
- This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
- Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and…
- But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.
- For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fi…
- And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.